Hi Greg. Yes pretty much I believe it was their idea. All they want to do is combine everything into one i.e., html into e-mail, internet destroyer bolted into w98. They also think winblows is so smart, recognizing <aHref> and formulating urls into hyperlinks? Wow! Impressive! What if I want to read the text of that link and not your crappy rendition? Then what? ----- Original Message ----- From: Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms' > Wasn't it originally macroslop's idea that html and e-mail were one and the same? > Greg > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:54:49PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hi all. I think that it is peoples' responsibility to change their messages to plain text, but even if the list were restricted to plain text, I wouldn't mind. Also, e-mail and html should be separated. There should be a difference between the web and the rest of the internet. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Igor Gueths <igueths at attbi.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:09 PM > > Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms' > > > > > > Hi. I think that this method is both better and more standard. I wouldn't mind if messages were restricted to text. I don't transmit in html anyway. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: 'Georgina' <gena at gena-j.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:48 PM > > Subject: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms' > > > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit Windows > > > viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages > > > restricted to plain text only? > > > > > > The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is. > > > > > > Gena > > > > > > Have your say: > > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > > > > > > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see > > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > > Personal Contact Details: > > > E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ: 144169465 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
